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John Snyder obviously meant his parable for his old adversary on price control, Price Boss Chester Bowles. For last week while Chet Bowles fought mightily to hold back the rising tide of prices, the hem of his bathrobe was already...
...India and Burma the young, amiable Emir displayed his sacred person freely to his grateful subjects. Some of his fighting men, overcome by awe, knelt before him to be blessed. Others begged to touch the hem of his robe or (when he wore a uniform) the cuffs of his well-creased trousers. Six Katsinans trekked four days & nights through the jungle to glimpse the red-fezzed head of their Emir. Sergeant Gombo Gombe ("Mr. Five by Five"), fattest front-line fighter in Burma, stripped to the waist to get his rifle immaculate enough to fire a royal salute...
...looks the most like home. It had been late summer three weeks ago as their ship passed under Sydney's great bridge and between the dun-colored cliffs of The Heads to the open sea. This week the pale green of early spring was on the hills that hem in San Francisco...
...John Citizen how he'd go about stopping wars and he'll hem & haw and say Well...
...benefit of doubters, Banker Ruml took the precaution of checking his assertions with impeccable outside sources: his letter was attested by 16 members of eight leading Manhattan accounting firms. Meanwhile, Congress and the Treasury continued to hem & haw over a proposition that seemed self-evident to many a master of sixth-grade arithmetic. For if the Treasury collects one year's taxes every year the Treasury cannot lose a year's revenue even if the taxes are collected against this year's instead of last year's income. Meantime the danger is growing that if taxation...